#oxbridge — Public Fediverse posts
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3/4 It is a system of ‘top #universities and #careers' that is nevertheless understood as being pretty much the natural state of things, requiring only a few adjustments.
If that’s the framework, then the outcome of any social mobility is predictable. As this #podcast demonstrates, the same upper- and middle-class (and, yes, affluent, #liberal London-centric) ideas and assumptions will continue to dominate. There’ll just be a few more (ideally #Oxbridge- and Russell Group-educated) working-class people from the regions involved in creating, disseminating and benefiting from them, as this podcast also demonstrates – although there’ll never be enough of them to make things anywhere near equal.
There’s also something pernicious about the claim here that changes in social mobility are not brought about because of political decisions so much as driven by #war and changes in #technology – #AI being just the latest.
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3/4 It is a system of ‘top #universities and #careers' that is nevertheless understood as being pretty much the natural state of things, requiring only a few adjustments.
If that’s the framework, then the outcome of any social mobility is predictable. As this #podcast demonstrates, the same upper- and middle-class (and, yes, affluent, #liberal London-centric) ideas and assumptions will continue to dominate. There’ll just be a few more (ideally #Oxbridge- and Russell Group-educated) working-class people from the regions involved in creating, disseminating and benefiting from them, as this podcast also demonstrates – although there’ll never be enough of them to make things anywhere near equal.
There’s also something pernicious about the claim here that changes in social mobility are not brought about because of political decisions so much as driven by #war and changes in #technology – #AI being just the latest.
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3/4 It is a system of ‘top #universities and #careers' that is nevertheless understood as being pretty much the natural state of things, requiring only a few adjustments.
If that’s the framework, then the outcome of any social mobility is predictable. As this #podcast demonstrates, the same upper- and middle-class (and, yes, affluent, #liberal London-centric) ideas and assumptions will continue to dominate. There’ll just be a few more (ideally #Oxbridge- and Russell Group-educated) working-class people from the regions involved in creating, disseminating and benefiting from them, as this podcast also demonstrates – although there’ll never be enough of them to make things anywhere near equal.
There’s also something pernicious about the claim here that changes in social mobility are not brought about because of political decisions so much as driven by #war and changes in #technology – #AI being just the latest.
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3/4 It is a system of ‘top #universities and #careers' that is nevertheless understood as being pretty much the natural state of things, requiring only a few adjustments.
If that’s the framework, then the outcome of any social mobility is predictable. As this #podcast demonstrates, the same upper- and middle-class (and, yes, affluent, #liberal London-centric) ideas and assumptions will continue to dominate. There’ll just be a few more (ideally #Oxbridge- and Russell Group-educated) working-class people from the regions involved in creating, disseminating and benefiting from them, as this podcast also demonstrates – although there’ll never be enough of them to make things anywhere near equal.
There’s also something pernicious about the claim here that changes in social mobility are not brought about because of political decisions so much as driven by #war and changes in #technology – #AI being just the latest.
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3/4 It is a system of ‘top #universities and #careers' that is nevertheless understood as being pretty much the natural state of things, requiring only a few adjustments.
If that’s the framework, then the outcome of any social mobility is predictable. As this #podcast demonstrates, the same upper- and middle-class (and, yes, affluent, #liberal London-centric) ideas and assumptions will continue to dominate. There’ll just be a few more (ideally #Oxbridge- and Russell Group-educated) working-class people from the regions involved in creating, disseminating and benefiting from them, as this podcast also demonstrates – although there’ll never be enough of them to make things anywhere near equal.
There’s also something pernicious about the claim here that changes in social mobility are not brought about because of political decisions so much as driven by #war and changes in #technology – #AI being just the latest.
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oh dear, smirking shit #ScottJennings, yet another #TrumpBrownNoser employed by the laughable #CNN, literally losses his shit on air.
What a pathetic dickless cuck, #MAGAts are such uppity little pussies
Hey CNN, just give up?
#MarkThompson, fuck off back to the UK you failed #BBC #OxBridge wanker? -
oh dear, smirking shit #ScottJennings, yet another #TrumpBrownNoser employed by the laughable #CNN, literally losses his shit on air.
What a pathetic dickless cuck, #MAGAts are such uppity little pussies
Hey CNN, just give up?
#MarkThompson, fuck off back to the UK you failed #BBC #OxBridge wanker? -
oh dear, smirking shit #ScottJennings, yet another #TrumpBrownNoser employed by the laughable #CNN, literally losses his shit on air.
What a pathetic dickless cuck, #MAGAts are such uppity little pussies
Hey CNN, just give up?
#MarkThompson, fuck off back to the UK you failed #BBC #OxBridge wanker? -
oh dear, smirking shit #ScottJennings, yet another #TrumpBrownNoser employed by the laughable #CNN, literally losses his shit on air.
What a pathetic dickless cuck, #MAGAts are such uppity little pussies
Hey CNN, just give up?
#MarkThompson, fuck off back to the UK you failed #BBC #OxBridge wanker? -
oh dear, smirking shit #ScottJennings, yet another #TrumpBrownNoser employed by the laughable #CNN, literally losses his shit on air.
What a pathetic dickless cuck, #MAGAts are such uppity little pussies
Hey CNN, just give up?
#MarkThompson, fuck off back to the UK you failed #BBC #OxBridge wanker? -
Britain will not rejoin EU or set up customs union, Starmer’s top negotiator warns.
Translation: we're still frit of the racists and gammons.
PS: Nick Symonds-Thomas is another one of those useless #Oxbridge PPE graduates that infest the UK's body politic.
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It turns out that #AI is mimicking the output of #Oxbridge / #PublicSchool alumni: plausible bullshit, assserted with eloquent confidence
h/t @Natasha_Jay
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Even if Trinity Hall, Cambridge backs away from this reportedly 'immoral' strategy of targeting recruitment at elite private schools such as Eton and Winchester, it still tells you a lot about what many people in these institutions really think.
Defund them!
https://openbookcollective.org/books/book/5679981/
#HE #highered #universities #oxbridge #Cambridge #class #classwar
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Eat the Rich (but maybe not me mates x), by Jade Franks
Really wanted to see this show but it’s already sold out.
https://sohotheatre.com/events/but-maybe-not-me-mates-x/
Still, reassuring to know there are so many people interested in culture that is thinking critically about Oxbridge privilege and how #class plays out in Britain today:
https://openbookcollective.org/books/book/5679981/
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/a-stubborn-fury/
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Eat the Rich (but maybe not me mates x), by Jade Franks
Really wanted to see this show but it’s already sold out.
https://sohotheatre.com/events/but-maybe-not-me-mates-x/
Still, reassuring to know there are so many people interested in culture that is thinking critically about Oxbridge privilege and how #class plays out in Britain today:
https://openbookcollective.org/books/book/5679981/
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/a-stubborn-fury/
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Eat the Rich (but maybe not me mates x), by Jade Franks
Really wanted to see this show but it’s already sold out.
https://sohotheatre.com/events/but-maybe-not-me-mates-x/
Still, reassuring to know there are so many people interested in culture that is thinking critically about Oxbridge privilege and how #class plays out in Britain today:
https://openbookcollective.org/books/book/5679981/
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/a-stubborn-fury/
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Eat the Rich (but maybe not me mates x), by Jade Franks
Really wanted to see this show but it’s already sold out.
https://sohotheatre.com/events/but-maybe-not-me-mates-x/
Still, reassuring to know there are so many people interested in culture that is thinking critically about Oxbridge privilege and how #class plays out in Britain today:
https://openbookcollective.org/books/book/5679981/
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/a-stubborn-fury/
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Eat the Rich (but maybe not me mates x), by Jade Franks
Really wanted to see this show but it’s already sold out.
https://sohotheatre.com/events/but-maybe-not-me-mates-x/
Still, reassuring to know there are so many people interested in culture that is thinking critically about Oxbridge privilege and how #class plays out in Britain today:
https://openbookcollective.org/books/book/5679981/
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/a-stubborn-fury/
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A #video of my 'Liquidate AI Art' talk for the Computer Arts Society is now available:
https://www.bcs.org/events-calendar/2025/october/webinar-liquidate-ai-art
‘This talk expands on my recent #book ‘Masked Media: What It Means To Be Human in the Age of Artificial Creative Intelligence’:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/masked-media/
It argues for liquidating #AI #art, not out of a dismissal of #artificialintelligence as techno-fascist, nihilist or parrot-like, but an insistence that art has always been created by assemblages of #humans and nonhumans.
The talk references Frieder Nake’s assertion that art should not be divided into commodifiable styles based on the #tools used, but should function as a radical force capable of disrupting the hierarchies of the art world.
Picking up on this challenge, ‘Liquidate AI Art’ shows how UK arts funding today overwhelmingly benefits upper- and middle-class, privately educated #Oxbridge #graduates.
What’s needed is a #redistribution of resources to support radically different artistic practices. -
Do British royals get admitted to Oxford or Cambridge even if they do not have the required high school grades?
#uk #ukuniversities #oxbridge #oxford #cambridge #ucas #sixthform #alevels #universityadmissions #collegeadmissions #universities #royalfamily #ukroyals #britishroyalty #highschoolgrades -
They call it #OxBridge because CamFord sounds like an auto part.
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#Education #University #Universities #UK #England #Oxford #Cambridge #LSE #LondonSchoolofeconomics #Durham #UniversityOfDurham #DurhamUniversity #SaintAndrews #StAndrews #Oxbridge #OxfordUniversity #CambridgeUniversity #UniversityRankings #ranking #News
So much for the Oxford v Cambridge boat race, and the “prestigious universities”. Bring on a new contest between St. Andrew’s and the LSE.Oxford University pushed out of top three in UK university rankings for first time https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2025-09-19/oxford-university-pushed-out-of-top-three-uk-university-ranking-for-first-time?utm_source=NewsApp&utm_medium=SocialShare
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#Education #University #Universities #UK #England #Oxford #Cambridge #LSE #LondonSchoolofeconomics #Durham #UniversityOfDurham #DurhamUniversity #SaintAndrews #StAndrews #Oxbridge #OxfordUniversity #CambridgeUniversity #UniversityRankings #ranking #News
So much for the Oxford v Cambridge boat race, and the “prestigious universities”. Bring on a new contest between St. Andrew’s and the LSE.Oxford University pushed out of top three in UK university rankings for first time https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2025-09-19/oxford-university-pushed-out-of-top-three-uk-university-ranking-for-first-time?utm_source=NewsApp&utm_medium=SocialShare
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#Education #University #Universities #UK #England #Oxford #Cambridge #LSE #LondonSchoolofeconomics #Durham #UniversityOfDurham #DurhamUniversity #SaintAndrews #StAndrews #Oxbridge #OxfordUniversity #CambridgeUniversity #UniversityRankings #ranking #News
So much for the Oxford v Cambridge boat race, and the “prestigious universities”. Bring on a new contest between St. Andrew’s and the LSE.Oxford University pushed out of top three in UK university rankings for first time https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2025-09-19/oxford-university-pushed-out-of-top-three-uk-university-ranking-for-first-time?utm_source=NewsApp&utm_medium=SocialShare
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When these people pontificate on our lives like they know better, remember it's nothing but a white people's club for the elites, not an actual place of knowledge and discovery.
They'd like us to think they have the finest minds in there but really it's just mediocre and over-confident posh people and a few genuine geniuses they have hanging around. -
Übrigens: Inzwischen ist die komplette #WerkstattGeschichte 89 "farbmarkierungen" online zugänglich!
Der Thementeil, hg. v. Hanno Balz, widmet sich der Macht der #Farben in rassistischen & vergeschlechtlichten Diskursen; neben den ⬆️ genannten bietet er 2 weitere Artikel:
▶ Stefanie Affeldt (@drstaff) zur Politik der #Whiteness in #Australien
▶ Dominic Janes zu Farbassoziationen unter (queeren) #Studenten in #Oxbridge um 1900
https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/farbmarkierungen/
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#education #academy #privitisation this was always the danger with the #thatcher plan. The obsession with #sats #oxbridge etc etc was a big black hole. Contrary to the meaning of e-duco (to lead out...implied "out of darkness"). #supporttheunions #nut ✊ https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/mar/02/pupils-uk-schools-academy-essex-mossbourne?CMP=share_btn_url
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Rachel Reeves announcement for #Oxbridge silicon valley:
"Funding for East-West Rail, with new services between Oxford and Milton Keynes"
How about MK to Cambridge???
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2/2 In a nutshell, as the literary world shrinks and becomes even more competitive, writers need to find other ways of setting themselves apart from their rivals. Attending #Oxbridge or the #IvyLeague is no longer enough - they all did that. So they have started to divide themselves up into high and middle brow by correcting references to #DonnaHaraway and the classics.
The take away? To build on a line of Joseph’s, what these reviewers are saying to the authors under review is: ‘you’re not special … but I am’.
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I see the #UniversityChallenge is (again) under attack for the elitism of allowing the over-representation of #Oxbridge on the show...
this is not a new criticism & the answer to this 'historical anomaly' is pretty easy & well know; limit the Universities of Oxford & Cambridge to one team each... like every other university (with the possible exception of the association of universities that make up the University of London).
Its not rocket science & resistance is (indeed) elitism!
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“You never see anyone studying, which is accurate.”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a357b/saltburn-movie-oxford-accuracy?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#Culture #oxford #jacobelordi #University #posh #Classism #britain #Cambridge #richpeople #Oxbridge -
“You never see anyone studying, which is accurate.”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a357b/saltburn-movie-oxford-accuracy?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#Culture #oxford #jacobelordi #University #posh #Classism #britain #Cambridge #richpeople #Oxbridge -
So #No10 was run by donkeys who went to #Oxbridge. My dog could have done better
#HelenMacNamara may reveal more soul than #Boris and co during #Covid19, but she still thought the rules didn’t apply to her
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/nov/01/so-no-10-run-by-donkeys-went-to-oxbridge-my-dog-could-have-done-better
#CovidInquiry #ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryBehaviour -
Top universities ‘will turn away more UK students’ as fees fail to match costs
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/jul/29/top-universities-will-turn-away-more-uk-students-as-fees-fail-to-match-costs?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#Oxbridge -
Sunak to force English universities to cap numbers of students on ‘low-value’ degrees | Students | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/jul/14/rishi-sunak-force-english-universities-cap-low-value-degrees#Sunak
#Universities
#Degrees
#LowValueDegrees
#Oxbridge
#Elitist
#WorkingClass
#GraduateJobs
#Disabled
#Disadvantaged
#EthnicMinorities
#ClassCeiling
#Tories
#Labour
#LibDems
#Aspirations
#FoundationCourses
#LimitOnFoundationCourses
#UniversityFunding -
Sunak to force English universities to cap numbers of students on ‘low-value’ degrees | Students | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/jul/14/rishi-sunak-force-english-universities-cap-low-value-degrees#Sunak
#Universities
#Degrees
#LowValueDegrees
#Oxbridge
#Elitist
#WorkingClass
#GraduateJobs
#Disabled
#Disadvantaged
#EthnicMinorities
#ClassCeiling
#Tories
#Labour
#LibDems
#Aspirations
#FoundationCourses
#LimitOnFoundationCourses
#UniversityFunding -
Sunak to force English universities to cap numbers of students on ‘low-value’ degrees | Students | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/jul/14/rishi-sunak-force-english-universities-cap-low-value-degrees#Sunak
#Universities
#Degrees
#LowValueDegrees
#Oxbridge
#Elitist
#WorkingClass
#GraduateJobs
#Disabled
#Disadvantaged
#EthnicMinorities
#ClassCeiling
#Tories
#Labour
#LibDems
#Aspirations
#FoundationCourses
#LimitOnFoundationCourses
#UniversityFunding -
Sunak to force English universities to cap numbers of students on ‘low-value’ degrees | Students | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/jul/14/rishi-sunak-force-english-universities-cap-low-value-degrees#Sunak
#Universities
#Degrees
#LowValueDegrees
#Oxbridge
#Elitist
#WorkingClass
#GraduateJobs
#Disabled
#Disadvantaged
#EthnicMinorities
#ClassCeiling
#Tories
#Labour
#LibDems
#Aspirations
#FoundationCourses
#LimitOnFoundationCourses
#UniversityFunding -
Sunak to force English universities to cap numbers of students on ‘low-value’ degrees | Students | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/jul/14/rishi-sunak-force-english-universities-cap-low-value-degrees#Sunak
#Universities
#Degrees
#LowValueDegrees
#Oxbridge
#Elitist
#WorkingClass
#GraduateJobs
#Disabled
#Disadvantaged
#EthnicMinorities
#ClassCeiling
#Tories
#Labour
#LibDems
#Aspirations
#FoundationCourses
#LimitOnFoundationCourses
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Things have taken an odd turn when someone who didn't attend either Oxford or Cambridge #Universities feels the need (in the FT today) to launch a defence of #OxBridge on the basis that we need these elite institutions to produce the 'best minds' of our generation(s).
Their alumni already dominate the media, politics & life in general, leaving fewer opportunities for others;
we don't need to 'defend' them, they can do that for themselves, we need to break their grip on the UK's imagination!
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Can someone in the #WritingCommunityUK help me with some questions about Oxbridge unis?
Specifically lectures v tutorials, lecturers v tutors, dons v? Professors, undergrad v grad programs, and do all classes/lectures/whatevers take place in University facilities or do colleges also hold them in their buildings?
Thanks #writingcommunity #amwriting #darkacedemia #Oxbridge -
Can someone in the #WritingCommunityUK help me with some questions about Oxbridge unis?
Specifically lectures v tutorials, lecturers v tutors, dons v? Professors, undergrad v grad programs, and do all classes/lectures/whatevers take place in University facilities or do colleges also hold them in their buildings?
Thanks #writingcommunity #amwriting #darkacedemia #Oxbridge -
Can someone in the #WritingCommunityUK help me with some questions about Oxbridge unis?
Specifically lectures v tutorials, lecturers v tutors, dons v? Professors, undergrad v grad programs, and do all classes/lectures/whatevers take place in University facilities or do colleges also hold them in their buildings?
Thanks #writingcommunity #amwriting #darkacedemia #Oxbridge -
Can someone in the #WritingCommunityUK help me with some questions about Oxbridge unis?
Specifically lectures v tutorials, lecturers v tutors, dons v? Professors, undergrad v grad programs, and do all classes/lectures/whatevers take place in University facilities or do colleges also hold them in their buildings?
Thanks #writingcommunity #amwriting #darkacedemia #Oxbridge -
Can someone in the #WritingCommunityUK help me with some questions about Oxbridge unis?
Specifically lectures v tutorials, lecturers v tutors, dons v? Professors, undergrad v grad programs, and do all classes/lectures/whatevers take place in University facilities or do colleges also hold them in their buildings?
Thanks #writingcommunity #amwriting #darkacedemia #Oxbridge -
Is it always nice to have options? This week’s Philosophy Unleashed tackles existentialism, UCAS, choosing a university, and choices in general about an unknown future. Read it here: https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/145-its-nice-to-have-options-existentialism-and-ucas
#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #Existentialism #UCAS #University #Oxbridge #Oxford #Cambridge #Choices #Sartre #FarbodAkhlaghi
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Is it always nice to have options? This week’s Philosophy Unleashed tackles existentialism, UCAS, choosing a university, and choices in general about an unknown future. Read it here: https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/145-its-nice-to-have-options-existentialism-and-ucas
#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #Existentialism #UCAS #University #Oxbridge #Oxford #Cambridge #Choices #Sartre #FarbodAkhlaghi
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Is it always nice to have options? This week’s Philosophy Unleashed tackles existentialism, UCAS, choosing a university, and choices in general about an unknown future. Read it here: https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/145-its-nice-to-have-options-existentialism-and-ucas
#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #Existentialism #UCAS #University #Oxbridge #Oxford #Cambridge #Choices #Sartre #FarbodAkhlaghi
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Is it always nice to have options? This week’s Philosophy Unleashed tackles existentialism, UCAS, choosing a university, and choices in general about an unknown future. Read it here: https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/145-its-nice-to-have-options-existentialism-and-ucas
#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #Existentialism #UCAS #University #Oxbridge #Oxford #Cambridge #Choices #Sartre #FarbodAkhlaghi